Book Launch: Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza's JAWS [tiburón]

The Poetic Research Bureau hosts the Los Angeles book launch of *JAWS \[tiburón*\] by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza, published by Cardboard House Press. With translators Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier, and co-readers isaac dwyer and Julián Delacruz. ∆ *JAWS \[tiburón\]* by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza, translated from the Spanish by Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier. “Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack. *JAWS* is a book about water, breath, and suffocation, about work that disciplines the body, about survival under glass. Through (mis)translation, documentary fragments, and cinematic archive, these poems reveal how capital renders certain lives expendable, human and non-human alike. Fierce, darkly funny, and formally restless, *JAWS* insists on the shark not as monster, but as mirror... swimming, working, alive and curious about where meaning breaks down across languages, worlds, and personas... and what lurks in the waters between.